Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen

The Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (1636-1962), also known as North Yemen from 1948 to 1962, was a former country located in the southern Arabian Peninsula.

History
The Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen had 100,150 people in 1836. With the majority of them being farmers, Yemen was a simple nation with a 55.2% majority of Mashriqis, 42.3% Bedouins, and 1.5% Sephardim. 61% of the people were Sunni, 36.5% were Shia, and 1.5% of the people were Sephardic Jews. It was ruled by the Yemeni Fascist Faction, although they made up only 5% of the government; 80% were conservatives and the other 15% were liberals.

Yemen was ruled by Zaidi Imams for much of its history, and they resisted invasions from the Ottoman Empire and Hejaz during the 1700s and 1800s. Yemen gained some territory in East Africa, but they found themselves quickly losing ground to the Ethiopian Empire during the latter half of the 19th century and they were evicted from Mogadishu and Mombasa (present-day Somalia and Kenya). In 1948, they lost control of South Yemen, which became a communist state. Yemen's monarchy was overthrown in 1962 and North Yemen became a democratic nation.